After taking a few hits to the gut of late, Bryant notched perhaps its most comprehensive victory over the past two weeks Friday in a key 6A-Central Conference game at Hornet Field.
Jonesboro lost a lot of talent off last season's Class 5A state runner-up team, and that left Coach Mark Dobson in the kind of predicament that many of his contemporaries would probably love to be in.
Jonesboro lost a lot of talent off last season's Class 5A state runner-up team, and that left Coach Mark Dobson in the kind of predicament that many of his contemporaries would probably love to be in.
January 1, 2021
In 1981, when the Jefferson Prep Patriots won the Class A State football championship with a 14-7 win over Lewisville, one of the biggest, strongest, toughest players on the team was a lineman named Buck James.
“I thought I was strong,” he recalled recently. “I thought I was tough. But I found out I wasn’t.”
James explained, “When I went to high school, the weight room was not a priority. When I went to college to play (at the University of Arkansas at Monticello), I thought the world was blue or green when I was on the football field because I was either looking at the sky or the ground. Because I got whipped. Because I wasn’t physically strong as those guys that came from Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi and came from good programs.